Trend Micro Antivirus Cost and Pricing Plans

If you’ve read any reliable guides to antivirus software, you’ll know that you don’t need to spend an arm and a leg to get good coverage. A lot of the time, the best antivirus software even offers free antivirus alternatives with limited features. And with the quality of those free solutions, we always expect paid options to offer great quality software without breaking the bank.

Antivirus software is Trend Micro’s bread and butter, and we’re hoping that it’s just as cheap. On this page, we’re analyzing the costs behind not only Trend Micro’s antivirus software but also their other digital security products like a VPN, password manager and more. Plus, we’ll include all the ways you can save. Security, savings and software? We’ve got it covered.

Free Subscription or Trial?

Trend Micro is pretty generous when it comes to giving us their services for free, with a number of completely free apps along with some free trials.

Free Apps

From saving five of your most important passwords to monitoring the dark web for your credentials, Trend Micro has a number of apps that you can use for free forever.

Free Trials

However, for its main antivirus apps, Trend Micro limits their free offerings to seven or 30 day trial periods. We’ll get to their pricing after the trial ends below, but first, here’s how long you could try out each service without paying a dime:

• Maximum Security: 30 days
• Internet Security: 30 days
• Antivirus + Security: 30 days
• Mobile Security for Android: Seven days
• Mobile Security for iOS: Seven days

Refund Policy

So you bit the bullet and bought a subscription from Trend Micro, and for whatever reason, you want to cancel it. Well, that’s quite alright because on top of the free trial periods, Trend Micro also gave us a 30-day money-back guarantee, which we thought was quite generous. Although considering the fact that 96 percent of consumers say they’ll return to a store with a satisfactory return policy,1 we understand why this guarantee exists in the first place.

Thankfully, Trend Micro doesn’t make you jump through too many hoops to request a refund either. We were able to send in an email request and we got our refund within a week. To make sure you get your refund on time, we’d recommend requesting a refund at least 7 days before your 30-day money-back guarantee period expires.

Pricing

Now let’s dive into the meat of this page, pricing.

Antivirus

We had eight different plans to choose from when it came to protecting our devices. Although, Antivirus+ Security and Antivirus for Mac were almost identical products for different operating systems. If you only need Windows antivirus, take a peek through our list of the best antivirus software for Windows PCs for more options.

In our Trend Micro review, we tested out the Maximum Security plan because it worked on five of our devices for a year for only $49.95, which was also pretty generous compared to competitors. But there are also options for one or 10 devices for one year or two years.

Other Digital Security Products

Aside from its antivirus and device protection software, Trend Micro has a number of other products aimed at keeping people safe online. We’ve outlined the pricing below as well as provided some context for each product and exactly what it does, although we haven’t tested them out personally. Note that some of these components are part of the above plans, but for more flexibility, you can also buy them one by one (although the packages are heavily discounted).

Are Trend Micro’s Add-On Services Worth the Price?

But, since Trend Micro’s bread and butter is antivirus software, how well do these add-ons stack up compared to industry norms? Here’s what we thought about each of Trend Micro’s add-on services:

• ID Security: While it’s not as comprehensive as other identity theft protection services, ID Security is a free app that will scan the dark web to your credentials, making sure they’re not being sold for purposes of identity theft. Considering the fact that there are 15 billion stolen credentials floating around the dark web,2 there’s truly no downside to downloading this free iOS or Android app.
• VPN: Although Trend Micro calls this product WiFi Protection, it’s really a VPN, or a Virtual Private Network that encrypts IP addresses and web activity. We recommend using VPNs whenever you’re connected to public Wi-Fi networks to avoid hacking. And compared to some other cheap VPNs, this one is affordable as well, although we wish they offered monthly contracting like most VPNs do.
• Password Manager: If you want to store more than five passwords (which most people will, as 70 percent of respondents in the U.S said they had more than 10 accounts and 20 percent said they had had more than 50),3 then you can pay $14.95 or $24.95 to store unlimited passwords across all of your Windows, Mac, iOS or Android devices for one or two years, respectively. Again, these prices are low, especially compared to the most popular password managers like Dashlane, which charges $59.99 to $119.99 for a single year of service.

• Cleaner One Pro: Last but not least is Cleaner One Pro, a way to clean up your Mac or Windows computer to free up storage space and get your computer running faster. Although these prices won’t break the bank, most people will be able to clean up their computers manually for free. But, if time and convenience are more important to you then $14.99 for one device or $79.99 for 10 devices could be a useful option.

Best Features

We’ll spare you the nitty-gritty details of our antivirus reviews, but here’s why we think Trend Micro is worth its prices, which are quite low to begin with:

• Firewall
• Scans for malicious behaviors

• Detected 100 percent of malware on Androids
• Seven to 30 day free trials
• 30-day money-back guarantee
• Subscriptions for one month, one year or two years
• Higher education student and faculty discounts
• Mobile Security & Antivirus app on the Google Play store has a 4.6 out of five-star rating
• Trend Micro Mobile Security app on the App store has a 4.7 out of five-star rating.

Again, we recommend you read our review of Trend Micro to get the full picture, but compared to other antivirus software, Trend Micro’s pricing is relatively low. Not to mention the fact that they have a one-month subscription option for iOS, while other companies set the bar at a year minimum. If you’re just as scared of commitment as we are, you’ll appreciate Trend Micro’s contract lengths.

Ways to Pay

Being the squares that we are, we used a MasterCard to order our subscription from Trend Micro, but there are a number of different options at your disposal including:

• American Express
• Bpay
• Cash cards (must be connected with one of the above credit card companies)
• Check cards (must be connected with one of the above credit card companies)
• Diner’s Club
• Discover
• EuroCard
• JCB
• MasterCard
• PayPal
• Visa

Discounts for Students and Faculty

Students, teachers and anyone on the staff of a school may not have a lot of extra money lying around for antivirus software, but Trend Micro has a solution. So long as you have an email address ending in “.edu” from an institute of higher learning (sorry, middle and high schoolers!), you can get 50 percent off antivirus software. Just enter your email and wait for a link to show up in your inbox guiding you to the Trend Micro store, half off.4

Need Help?

We all could use a little help sometimes! If you need help with anything Trend Micro, you can contact their support team over:

• Facebook Messenger
• Live chat
• Email
• Phone

The company also has a really helpful online support center. When we wanted to know the lengths of the free trials, for example, we quickly found the proper articles after searching the word “trial”. Believe us, this is not always the case when it comes to antivirus companies’ online help centers, so we were pleasantly surprised with how straightforward Trend Micro was in this capacity. Plus, the ability to contact them over Facebook Messenger was a treat and a rarity as well!

Recap

And that does it for Trend Micro’s pricing! Overall, we think their prices are right where they should be if not a little lower than the industry averages, especially for the antivirus software. If you’re looking for affordable protection for your devices, Trend Micro is a viable option.